Coughing? Did you have your hands around his nuts?
"See your doing it all wrong, you need to open your throat, relax the jaw, dont forget to cup the balls. "
That, despite testing negative or the disease being dormant for a long time (5-15 years), you can still test positive for it later on? Or have modern tests become more accurate? I heard this in the early 1990s. I ask because a friend of mine is doing research on the disease at Rockerfeller University and I noticed him coughing the other day.
Are you retarded? If the virus is present you'll test positive, if it isn't you will not.
It doesn't matter how far you have progressed in the disease AIDS, if you are infected with HIV you will test positive from day one.
I think your biggest problem is with your malfunctioning brain, not with HIV.
It is important to know, however, that it may take up to six months after exposure to the HIV virus before you will test positive on an HIV antibody test, although most infected people will test positive within 3 months. A negative test, therefore, isn't a reliable indicator of your infection status if you were only exposed last week. Tests that look directly for HIV RNA, the virus' genetic material, can detect an infection earlier, but are harder to find
Yes it is true about the basic HIV tests. There are much more complicated and specific tests (like testing for HIV RNA) that can be used.
Just so you know it is a 3 in 1000 chance of getting HIV from a needle stick. Where as sharing needles is like 1 in 10 and having sex with an infected person is like 1 in 50 or something along those lines.
It is indeed possible to obtain negative results, depending on the test run, if you've recently been infected.
This has to be an American thing? Cultivated tests have been done in the UK since the early 90's, it takes three weeks and you get a definitive result.
Are you retarded? If the virus is present you'll test positive, if it isn't you will not.
It doesn't matter how far you have progressed in the disease AIDS, if you are infected with HIV you will test positive from day one.
I think your biggest problem is with your malfunctioning brain, not with HIV.
Most HIV tests are antibody tests that measure the antibodies your body makes against HIV. It can take some time for the immune system to produce enough antibodies for the antibody test to detect and this time period can vary from person to person. This time period is commonly referred to as the window period. Most people will develop detectable antibodies within 2 to 8 weeks (the average is 25 days). Even so, there is a chance that some individuals will take longer to develop detectable antibodies. Therefore, if the initial negative HIV test was conducted within the first 3 months after possible exposure, repeat testing should be considered >3 months after the exposure occurred to account for the possibility of a false-negative result. Ninety seven percent will develop antibodies in the first 3 months following the time of their infection. In very rare cases, it can take up to 6 months to develop antibodies to HIV.
Another type of test is an RNA test, which detects the HIV virus directly. The time between HIV infection and RNA detection is 9-11 days. These tests, which are more costly and used less often than antibody tests, are used in some parts of the United States.
Have you ever heard of specificity and sensitivity or positive and negative predicting values? Do you know anything about medical testing?No it isn't true about ANY test, they are all two stage (initial and cultivated) tests and have been for a long time.
Perhaps in the early 80's?
That, despite testing negative or the disease being dormant for a long time (5-15 years), you can still test positive for it later on? Or have modern tests become more accurate? I heard this in the early 1990s. I ask because a friend of mine is doing research on the disease at Rockerfeller University and I noticed him coughing the other day.
Sorry to hear Dari - just remember it's not a death sentence these days.
I have aids, they help me work harder and answer my phone.
That, despite testing negative or the disease being dormant for a long time (5-15 years), you can still test positive for it later on?
Actually "super aids" is really HIV that is mutated to use CCR5 coreceptor immediately causing a much faster progression from healthy to full blown disease.No, that's only for super aids.
That, despite testing negative or the disease being dormant for a long time (5-15 years), you can still test positive for it later on? Or have modern tests become more accurate? I heard this in the early 1990s. I ask because a friend of mine is doing research on the disease at Rockerfeller University and I noticed him coughing the other day.